Opinion: The first challenge for ARPA-H should be electronic health record migration
Most new, high-profile initiatives start with something splashy. President Biden’s proposed transformative biomedical agency, the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), should start with something mundane: revamping the now-ubiquitous electronic health record (EHR).
Once hailed for their potential to transform U.S. health care into a modern, data-driven enterprise, electronic health records have instead increased the burden of data entry, contributed to physician burnout, and had a nebulous impact on the quality of care.
